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Radio France Internationale
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Alison Hird

Why expanding €1 meal scheme won’t solve student hardship in France

Students in Paris queue for food handouts. A survey in January showed half of university students are skipping a daily meal due to financial difficulties. © Renouveau syndical

From May this year, all university students in France will be eligible for a hot meal costing just €1 in state-run university canteens, but students and aid organisations warn that subsidised meals address only one facet of the much broader crisis they’re facing.

Living on a shoestring has long been a feature of undergraduate life, but student poverty is rising in France.

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